Sam Ragan Awards
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The Sam Ragan Awards are an annual fine arts award presented by St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, North Carolina.
The Sam Ragan Award was created in 1981 to honor Samuel Talmadge Ragan, North Carolina's first Secretary of Cultural resources. It is presented annually to one or more persons for outstanding contributions to the Fine Arts of North Carolina over an extended period--including, but above and beyond--the recipient's own primary commitment.
Mr. Ragan received the North Carolina Award, the State's highest honor, as well as the Morrison and Parker Awards and the DAR Medal of Honor. He received honorary doctoral degrees from St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Atlantic Christian (now Barton) College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Methodist College.
For 20 years he edited the News & Observer in Raleigh. He was then owner and editor of The Pilot in Southern Pines until his death in 1996. He authored six award-winning volumes of poetry and a number of works of nonfiction.
Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award Winners
1981 Sara Hodgkins Southern Pines, NC
1982 Harriet Doar Charlotte, NC John Fries Blair Winston-Salem, NC
1983 Nicholas Bragg Winston-Salem, NC Roy Parker Fayetteville, NC
1984 Mae Woods Bell Rocky Mount, NC Frank Borden Hanes Winston-Salem, NC
1985 Charleen Swansea Chapel Hill, NC Ella Fountain Pratt Durham, NC
1986 Sallie Nixon Lincolnton, NC James L. Morgan Laurel Hill, NC
1987 Robert Mason Southern Pines, NC A.P. Perkinson Pinehurst, NC
1988 Paul Jeffery Durham, NC
1989 Shelby Stephenson Southern Pines, NC Stephen Smith Southern Pines, NC
1990 William Little Chapel Hill, NC Kate Blackburn Washington, DC
1991 Gerald Barrax Raleigh, NC Marsha Warren Chapel Hill, NC
1992 Clyde Edgerton Durham, NC Marvin Swartzman Chapel Hill, NC
1993 Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Durham, NC Marty Silverthorne Greenville, NC Sally Buckner Raleigh, NC
1994 Marie Gilbert Greensboro, NC Kathry B. Gurkin Clinton, NC Thomas F. Henley New York & Laurinburg, NC
1995 Joseph Bathanti Statesville, NC Nancy Bradberry Southern Pines, NC Glen Rounds Southern Pines, NC
1996 Anthony Abbott Davidson, NC Ruth Moose Albemarle, NC Talmadge Moose Albemarle, NC
1997 Jerry Bledsoe Asheboro, NC David Brinkley Washington, DC Ellen Johnson-Hale Chapel Hill, NC Susan Rose Durham, NC
1998 Betty Adcock Raleigh, NC Irwin Kremen Durham, NC Tom Wicker Rochester, VT
1999 Georgann Eubanks Chapel Hill, NC Jacques Maloubier Southern Pines, NC Loonis McGlohon Charlotte, NC
2000 Scott Ainslie Durham, NC Daniel Nie Washington, DC Louis Rubin Chapel Hill, NC
2001 Daniel Infantino Southern Pines, NC Dannye Romine Powell Charlotte, NC H.A. Sieber Greensboro, NC
2002 Fred Chappell Greensboro, NC Jack Pinkerton Fayetteville, NC James L. Morgan, Jr. Laurinburg, NC
2003 Edward R. Gomez New York City, NY
2004 The Rt. Rev. John S. Spong Morris Plains, NJ
2005 Chuck Sullivan Charlotte, NC
2006 Jan Hensley Greensboro, NC Lenard Moore Mt. Olive, NC Margaret Vardell Sandrewsky Winston-Salem, NC
2007 Robert Grant Charleston, SC Jaki Shelton Green Mebane, NC Sondra Martin Fayetteville, NC
2008 Charles Blackburn, Jr., Barbara Geer, Thomas Sayre
